Sure I was pissed like everyone else when I found out they wouldn't show new episodes for over a year back in the day, but now that it's almost the middle of 2013, thanks for giving me something else to live for, Breaking Bad!

I've never watched BB, but I understand the main character has terminal cancer, yet the show is on its 4th or 5h season. How is he still alive and running around causing shiat? I remember when my mom was having cancer treatment she barely had the energy to walk around.

Tyrone Slothrop:I've never watched BB, but I understand the main character has terminal cancer, yet the show is on its 4th or 5h season. How is he still alive and running around causing shiat? I remember when my mom was having cancer treatment she barely had the energy to walk around.

Why would you assume that 5 seasons of the show equals five years in the life of the character?

Tyrone Slothrop:I've never watched BB, but I understand the main character has terminal cancer, yet the show is on its 4th or 5h season. How is he still alive and running around causing shiat? I remember when my mom was having cancer treatment she barely had the energy to walk around.

If you watched the show, you'd understand the timeline and the medical treatments.

Tyrone Slothrop:I've never watched BB, but I understand the main character has terminal cancer, yet the show is on its 4th or 5h season. How is he still alive and running around causing shiat? I remember when my mom was having cancer treatment she barely had the energy to walk around.

It's been just a little over a year, story-time, and they did spend time looking at how he suffered through treatment. He's currently in remission, but the cancer is showing signs of coming back.

t3knomanser:Tyrone Slothrop: I've never watched BB, but I understand the main character has terminal cancer, yet the show is on its 4th or 5h season. How is he still alive and running around causing shiat? I remember when my mom was having cancer treatment she barely had the energy to walk around.

It's been just a little over a year, story-time, and they did spend time looking at how he suffered through treatment. He's currently in remission, but the cancer is showing signs of coming back.

Exactly. I mean in season 1 Skylar was visibly pregnant. She gave birth near the end of season 2. By the end of season 5 the baby is just starting to walk so she is probably around a year old.

mechgreg:Exactly. I mean in season 1 Skylar was visibly pregnant. She gave birth near the end of season 2. By the end of season 5 the baby is just starting to walk so she is probably around a year old.

A better timeline gauge is Walt's birthdays, as measured by his bacon number. He's diagnosed around his 50th birthday, has his 51st when Skyler is on the verge of divorcing him, and we've seen a flash-forward of him having his 52nd in a diner alone. The entire story arc is about a two year window.

unyon:mechgreg:Exactly. I mean in season 1 Skylar was visibly pregnant. She gave birth near the end of season 2. By the end of season 5 the baby is just starting to walk so she is probably around a year old.

A better timeline gauge is Walt's birthdays, as measured by his bacon number. He's diagnosed around his 50th birthday, has his 51st when Skyler is on the verge of divorcing him, and we've seen a flash-forward of him having his 52nd in a diner alone. The entire story arc is about a two year window.

You're right I forgot about the bacons birthday's. Although the 51st birthday was before that awesome meth making montage in the last episode last season which lasted a couple of months, and Holly was walk was after, so it gives you a good idea of where we are in in the very last episode.

yukichigai:Unlike the last season of Lost, Vince Gilligan actually knew where this season was going more than five minutes ago.

Yeah, for real. Damon Lindolhoff or however you spell his name owned up to making shiat up as he went along, because he never thought it'd make it past the first season or go to series to begin with. Then he said "It was all about the characters. None of that other stuff mattered." Which, oddly enough, I wholeheartedly agree with and said all along, but a copout is a copout. He took care of my demographic, the ones that realized it was about the characters, but the ones who watched for the weird shiat got exactly that, shiat.

ParagonComplex:yukichigai: Unlike the last season of Lost, Vince Gilligan actually knew where this season was going more than five minutes ago.

Yeah, for real. Damon Lindolhoff or however you spell his name owned up to making shiat up as he went along, because he never thought it'd make it past the first season or go to series to begin with. Then he said "It was all about the characters. None of that other stuff mattered." Which, oddly enough, I wholeheartedly agree with and said all along, but a copout is a copout. He took care of my demographic, the ones that realized it was about the characters, but the ones who watched for the weird shiat got exactly that, shiat.

There was also the fact that after the show became a hit they had no idea how long the show would last, so it made plotting very difficult, which resulted in filler episodes like the Nikki and Paulo shiat and the mysteries of Jack's tattoos. ABC wanted to milk it for as long as possible, and in the even that ABC wanted to keep the show on the air for longer than 6 seasons Lindelof and Cuse were going to quit and they had someone lined up to take over as showrunner.